The oaks bear mast, the briars scarlet hips; The bounteous housewife, Nature, on each bush Lays her full mess before you.

That schip had a ful siker mast, And a sayl strong and large.

His sisters bossed him and spoiled him. All their lives he was to go on being their little brother, who could do no wrong, because he was the baby; …

In the absence of the highly diagnostic cocculinellid radula, Marshall (1983) referred C. coercita to Cocculinella because of the close similarity of the shell to those of C. minutissima and the New Zealand Recent species C. osteophila Marshall, 1983.